Horrible Vermin

I read The Metamorphosis this week. Kafka is the shit. Read it if you haven't already.

But Grampa! I asked for a Nintendo Wii!

This was far more work than I imagined. Those pioneer brats were totally spoiled.

The Cover-up

Colouring inside the lines

Truman Capote (from Henri Cartier Bresson):
Marker on hot press - 15" x 20"



Cowfish (from David Doubilet):
Gouache on hot press - 15" x 20"

Why pandas have thumbs.

Yeah, there are all of three people that read this blog, but if you're interested in sponsoring my participation in the CN Tower Climb for WWF Canada (April 17th), please visit my fundraising page.





And if you're not interested, you can still check out the training diary and follow my progress.

UPDATE!
I did squats today and felt nauseous.

I just wish you could feel my pain...

A cold and deserted city

If one were to analyze these photos, one might imagine that their photographer is a misanthrope who does not like people. And one would be correct.

More Fruit

I am officially tired of fruit. This assignment required the creation of a still-life using vector graphics. The first photo is the reference image I used, and the second is the illustration I created using various tools in Illustrator (i.e. gradient meshes, transparent layers, gaussian blurring, etc). There's more that I would have liked to have added (texture in the lime, the surface of the strawberry), but sometimes you have to say, "NO MORE".

Verboten Fruit

Created this stationary for a fictitious cosmetics company. The logo concept I came up with was to put a woman's face in an apple, and to have her hair also double as the bite out of the apple. Not all that unsuccessful because nobody sees it until I mention it. The other concept I came up with was to make the business card look like an apple hanging from a tree. Not so obvious either. I guess I need to work on that. There are a number of other areas that the design could be improved on, but I was already into the grace period for this assignment.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Advices?

Just for the record, Franco is a child. Arnold is the father.

Even Monsters Get The Blues

What keeps monsters awake at night? Baby Hitlers on the prowl, if this drawing is any indication. Also, the pain of having clumsy hands which defy good anatomical taste, and a lack of legs.

This assignment was for Foundation Colour. It was done in gouache, and the assignment stipulated that we had to make use of all the primary, secondary and tertiary colours (hence the garish colour choices). We were required to derive all the secondary and tertiary colours using only the primary ones - hence the terrible red violet comforter.

The Peek-a-Boo Girl

Drawings of Veronica Lake for George Brown Art & Design Foundation. The assignment was to produce two line drawings of the same subject, using a detailed approach for the first drawing and an economical approach for the second.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. - Veronica Lake

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair." - Veronica Lake